This is considered to be the first great German color plate bird book. It was published by Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666-1743) who was a theologian, naturalist and philologist.

This monumental work on German Birds contains a total of 255 hand-colored copperplate engravings (altogether 307 figures). The work was started by J.L Frisch but it ultimately became a family project: Frisch’s sons Ferdinand Helfreich and Philipp Jakob were responsible for drawing and engraving the plates and following the elder Frisch’s death, his grandson Just Leopold Frisch composed the text for the work.

This is considered to be the first great German color plate bird book. It was published by Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666-1743) who was a theologian, naturalist and philologist.

This monumental work on German Birds contains a total of 255 hand-colored copperplate engravings (altogether 307 figures). The work was started by J.L Frisch but it ultimately became a family project: Frisch’s sons Ferdinand Helfreich and Philipp Jakob were responsible for drawing and engraving the plates and following the elder Frisch’s death, his grandson Just Leopold Frisch composed the text for the work.

This is considered to be the first great German color plate bird book. It was published by Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666-1743) who was a theologian, naturalist and philologist.

This monumental work on German Birds contains a total of 255 hand-colored copperplate engravings (altogether 307 figures). The work was started by J.L Frisch but it ultimately became a family project: Frisch’s sons Ferdinand Helfreich and Philipp Jakob were responsible for drawing and engraving the plates and following the elder Frisch’s death, his grandson Just Leopold Frisch composed the text for the work.

This is considered to be the first great German color plate bird book. It was published by Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666-1743) who was a theologian, naturalist and philologist.

This monumental work on German Birds contains a total of 255 hand-colored copperplate engravings (altogether 307 figures). The work was started by J.L Frisch but it ultimately became a family project: Frisch’s sons Ferdinand Helfreich and Philipp Jakob were responsible for drawing and engraving the plates and following the elder Frisch’s death, his grandson Just Leopold Frisch composed the text for the work.

This is considered to be the first great German color plate bird book. It was published by Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666-1743) who was a theologian, naturalist and philologist.

This monumental work on German Birds contains a total of 255 hand-colored copperplate engravings (altogether 307 figures). The work was started by J.L Frisch but it ultimately became a family project: Frisch’s sons Ferdinand Helfreich and Philipp Jakob were responsible for drawing and engraving the plates and following the elder Frisch’s death, his grandson Just Leopold Frisch composed the text for the work.

This is considered to be the first great German color plate bird book. It was published by Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666-1743) who was a theologian, naturalist and philologist.

This monumental work on German Birds contains a total of 255 hand-colored copperplate engravings (altogether 307 figures). The work was started by J.L Frisch but it ultimately became a family project: Frisch’s sons Ferdinand Helfreich and Philipp Jakob were responsible for drawing and engraving the plates and following the elder Frisch’s death, his grandson Just Leopold Frisch composed the text for the work.

This is considered to be the first great German color plate bird book. It was published by Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666-1743) who was a theologian, naturalist and philologist.

This monumental work on German Birds contains a total of 255 hand-colored copperplate engravings (altogether 307 figures). The work was started by J.L Frisch but it ultimately became a family project: Frisch’s sons Ferdinand Helfreich and Philipp Jakob were responsible for drawing and engraving the plates and following the elder Frisch’s death, his grandson Just Leopold Frisch composed the text for the work.

This is considered to be the first great German color plate bird book. It was published by Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666-1743) who was a theologian, naturalist and philologist.

This monumental work on German Birds contains a total of 255 hand-colored copperplate engravings (altogether 307 figures). The work was started by J.L Frisch but it ultimately became a family project: Frisch’s sons Ferdinand Helfreich and Philipp Jakob were responsible for drawing and engraving the plates and following the elder Frisch’s death, his grandson Just Leopold Frisch composed the text for the work.